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OneCreativeMama was born in December 2006 when a few friends noticed her homemade onesies with breastfeeding slogans and asked to buy some. The rest is history.
Sarah breastfeed her son Sawyer until he was 14 months, and Levi until he was 24 months. (She's still nursing baby, of course!) Breastfeeding was extremely difficult the first time, and not much easier the second. She ran into every problem out there. Her milk didn't come in for 5 days, the baby had jaundice, the baby wouldn't latch on correctly, sore nipples, "lazy" babies, etc. If not for the help of her mother-in-law, who happens to be a lactation consultant, the result could have been much different! She also ran into problems with the "professional opinions". She had doctors tell her that he milk would probably never come in, and when it did, continually questioned whether she was making enough. She had nurses tell her after 2 minutes of trying to latch on the baby that this just wasn't going to work, there was something wrong with her nipples (there wasn't, it's called engorgement), and it was OK to go to a bottle because that's what they had to do when they had a baby.
The goal of OneCreativeMama is to offer a unique way to display your pride of breastfeeding. Sarah believes strongly in breastfeeding as the only way to nurture a baby for at least the first 2 years of life. Breastfeeding is not something to hide, rather, it is something to be proud of and normalize for this country. Most women today have a very hard time trying to nurse and eventually giving up because the art of breastfeeding has been lost in the past 3 generations. We don't even see children breastfeeding in public, and therefore don't know where to begin. Even mothers with the best of intentions discover that breastfeeding is not always that easy. Not because there is something wrong with them or the baby, but because the cultural knowledge is gone. Most doctors in this country do not receive any education on how to breastfeed!